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01 Work, The Art of War, Charles Meynier’s Allegory of war, with footnotes
Sold for €20,625 EUR in June 2022 This door top comes from Madame Mère’s Palazzo Rinuccini in Rome. Charles Meynier (1763 or 1768, Paris – 1832, Paris) was a French painter… Read more
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Andrea Vaccaro’s Sant ‘Agata, With Footnotes – 123
Saint Agatha of Sicily (231 AD – 251 AD) is a Christian saint and virgin martyr. Agatha was born at Catania or Palermo, Sicily, and she was martyred in approximately 251.… Read more
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Henri Adrien Tanoux, with footnotes, 80
Henri Adrien Tanoux ( Marseille , 18 October as as 1865 – Paris , 1923 ) was a French painter. He dedicated himself to landscapes , nudes and oriental scenes .He studied at… Read more
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01 Marine Art, Marius de JONGERE, With Footnotes, #305
Ponape was a four-masted steel–hulled barque which was built in 1903 in Italy as Regina Elena for an Italian owner. In 1911 she was sold to Germany and renamed Ponape. In… Read more
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11 Works, November 22st. is Consuelo Fould’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #239
Consuelo Fould, born November 22, 1862, in Cologne (Germany), arrived in France in 1864, with her parents, Valérie Simonin and Gustave Fould. She trained very young with her mother, a… Read more
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16 Works, October 15th. is Juan Bautista Maíno’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #223
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and… Read more
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12 Works, September 20th. is Julius Exter’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #207
Musa is such a passionate dancer that when she is not praying she is dancing, she is even dancing prayers. When she is dancing a prayer to the Holy Virgin,… Read more
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11 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #28
Pierre Bonnard , French, 1867 – 1947 The Port Of Cannes, Le Port de Cannes, c. 1926 – 1927 Oil, canvas Private Collection Cannes is a city located on the… Read more
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12 Paintings of the Canals of Venice in the 18 & 19th Century, by the artists of the time, with foot notes. #5
Richard Price, (British, born 1962) April Day in Venice Oil on canvas 51 x 61cm (20 1/16 x 24in). Private Collection The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known… Read more
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12 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, with footnotes # 30
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sliman Mansour’s crowd, with footnotes
Mansour is a committed Palestinian artist. Here he paints a compact crowd, seized with fear and hampered by the barbed wire of the occupation. Beyond the Palestinian question, this image… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Howard Pyle’s A Wolf Had Not Been Seen at Salem for Thirty Years, with footnotes
Pyle’s image is rather sparse, between the snow and the cloudy sky he leaves the viewer’s eye to latch onto the people and the wolf. Your eye falls upon the… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Elmars Mageramovs’ Victims of War, with footnotes
“The theme is relevant in our troubled time. I think it is worth thinking about our attitude to the world, to suppress in oneself everything that leads to war, instability… Read more
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02 Works, The art of War, Louis Gallait’s War and Peace, with Footnotes
When this pair of allegorical paintings (together with Walters 37.124) was completed in 1872, a Belgian critic wrote: “M. Gallait just finished two paintings forming a pendant pair that rank… Read more
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01 Work, The art of War, Benjamin West’s Edward III Crossing The Somme, with Footnotes
English offensives in 1345–1347, during the Hundred Years’ War, resulted in repeated defeats of the French, the loss or devastation of much French territory and the capture by the English… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Afifa Aleiby’s Gulf War, with footnotes
Gulf War reflects Aleiby’s pain for the suffering that had resulted from the Persian Gulf War, which happened between 1990 to 1991 and was triggered by the Iraqi invasion of… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sue Coe’s Bomb Shelter? with footnotes
With access to the outside world choked off the superb painter Hanaa Malallah, developed varieties of ruggedly handmade books that are like the dream diaries of constricted personal lives and… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, George Bellows’ The Germans Arrive, with footnotes
A German soldier strangles a civilian while another woman is attacked near a burning cottage. Artists played a role even before 1917. Reports of German atrocities galvanized George Bellows, initially… Read more
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02 Works, The Art of War, George Bellows’ Massacre at Dinant, with footnotes
The Dinant massacre refers to the mass execution of civilians, looting and sacking of Dinant, Neffe and Bouvignes-sur-Meuse in Belgium, perpetrated by German troops during the Battle of Dinant against… Read more
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